On July 1, Louisiana’s Governor signed SB 53, which moves the state’s congressional elections to late September. Only if no one gets 50% will a run-off be held, and such run-offs would be in November. Because the US Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that federal law forbids such timing (which Louisiana used between 1978 and 1996), it is likely that the new law will not go into effect. The state is under a federal court order to obey the 1997 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which was called Foster v Love.